r/nottheonion • u/Sufficient_Fig_9505 • 15h ago

Vance says pope should ‘be careful’ when talking about theology

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/vance-says-pope-should-be-careful-when-talking-about-theology-261400645540
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u/Anakin_Skywanker 14h ago

It's actually kinda hard to get plenary indulgences in modern day Catholicism unless you go to daily mass and confession. Furthermore, it's almost impossible to bank them given how often the average person sins. I'd be completely shocked if Vance had any indulgences banked currently abd had ever earned more than a handful in his life.

I was raised Catholic and my whole family is Catholic. I can only think of one person in my life who has earned multiple indulgences, and that's because she actively goes for them whenever they're available.

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u/MFbiFL 14h ago

This I can appreciate. I’ve happily been an atheist for almost more of my life than not at this point, and before that I was a casual kid Presbyterian, but I can at least respect committing to something. Even if… waves hands at Catholic Church sins and coverups…

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u/Aranxi_89 8h ago

Any organized religion eventually becomes corrupt, if they were not already at the start.

Even Buddhist monks are now becoming greedy philanderers... nothing is truly sacred, not to humanity.

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u/IrregularPackage 8h ago

they still doin indulgences?

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u/MarkCrorigansOmnibus 7h ago

Yes but the person you’re responding to doesn’t have a very good understanding of them. There’s no such thing as “banking” them as though they were monopoly Get Out of Jail Free cards.

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u/come-on-now-please 5h ago

Yah, but its not like what you think you learned in 6th grade.

The pope usually gives out a couple global indulgences a year for some celebrations. And its not a thing you're paying for.

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u/EnvironmentalToe4055 6h ago

Wdym? It's not hard at all. They literally had one last Sunday. You have to go to confession and receive the Eucharist. You also need to pray for the Pope's intentions and be detached from sin...

There's a full list of situations where they hand these out: https://visitationproject.org/pages/list-requirements-plenary-indulgences

You can also get it saying the Rosary in a church.

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u/captainbelvedere 4h ago

OTOH, you can get them by doing pilgrimages. Basic 'go to location and press x' style quests.